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FANTASTIC FORUM was a website with a thriving forum community. A very cool place, according to those who went there. I was never invited nor did I ever even hear of it until it was gone; do obviously a very cool place indeed if they knew to pre-ostracize the likes of Jackstar — Jackstar, and his ilk (jafd).
Perplexity: When did this forum begin - Fantastic Forum the Original Art Bell's Midnight in the Desert and Coast to Coast AM Forum?
Fantastic Forum appears to have begun in late 2001 or early 2002. The forum’s “Original Radio Room” links to an “Art Bell Archive 12-2001 to 5-2002”, which strongly suggests the forum was active by that period. The site’s current homepage also describes it as the “Original Art Bell’s Midnight in the Desert and Coast to Coast AM Forum,” but the page itself does not give a formal launch date.
Fantastic Forum was founded by Lawrence Young, who is also listed as the creator of the later comic-book podcast that uses the same name. The forum itself is currently managed by the Super Moderators team, and the site’s forum index shows that moderation role across the active sections.
The site does not clearly name a single current owner on the public forum index, but the visible management structure is Super Moderators, with frequent postings by users such as Riddick, Malaria_Kidd II, and others.
Keep your eyes on YouTube. I have it on good authority that Gabcast related livestreams may be happening in the not too distant future.
I think eMCee scrubbed the Rubini/Zaza stuff himself, didn't he?
In anycase, if the 'Neu Owner' is indeed intardasted in scrubbing shit-stains they could start with JaxTard's garbage...
If whomever owns the site (there's your conspiracy, sir...) is 'curating posts' on/by their personal tastes or what-not... Totally 'fake and gay.'
Might as well just hit the 'delete' button.
As I recall, eMCee generally left anything posted up as long as it wasn't pornographic or otherwise some sort of illegal activity...
The Rubini/Zaza stuff I seem to recall was related to doxxing somehow or another?
I dunno, definitely locking out new posts is 'fake and gay,' especially if you are 'curating' according to personal taste as I outlined above.
Why eMCee sold the place to a DemonCrap (that sort of curation is decidedly DemonCraptic) I am at a loss to explain.
I am not certain, it has been quite awhile... I'd need to see the front-page/splash-page from when the site was last functional... I seem to recall that the 'last posts' in each section were not the ones that are listed now. For some reason, I have the dates of these recalled 'last posts' being from September, I can only assume that they were prior to the 'current' October dates in 2022? Or is there almost a full year (to Sept '23?) of missing posts?
I seem to recall my 'pate/K_Dubb 2024' thread over in Politics having a lot more posts than are 'currently' there...
Unfortunately, the site has no snapshots on the 'Intartube wayback masheen' with which to compare.
Something seems 'off' in any case.
I haven't dug too deeply into it, still think it is pretty 'fake and gay' for whomever the new owner is (if there really IS a new owner) to have locked out the ability to login and post new content, sad...
bellgab.com was back up a moment ago, at least on my phone...
Appeared to be missing some posts that occurred before 'final' lockdown on posts, I think?
Perhaps it is still 'loading' content or something.
Nautical Shore.
